Feb 27, 2014 - Sale 2340

Sale 2340 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 32,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
RUSCHA, EDWARD.
A select group of 12 artist photo books,

including the monumental Every Building on the Sunset Strip in the slipcase and with the bellyband, as well as Records, Babycakes with Weights, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, and many more. Each with numerous illustrations, and each highlighting Ruscha's mysterious, playful, intense, and enchanting capacities as a towering figure in contemporary art. Various formats, but most 8vos, with the glassine dust jackets and slipcase when issued; overall very good condition. Hasselblad 198. first editions, 3 are signed by ruscha.
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Additional Details

Every Building on the Sunset Strip (with the slipcase and bellyband), 1966


A Few Palm Trees. Signed by Ruscha. 1971


Crackers, (1969)


Nine Swimming Pools, (1968)


Hard Light, (1978)


Colored People, 1972


Real Estate Opportunities, 1970


Records. Signed by Ruscha. 1971


Business Cards. Signed by Ruscha. 1968


Royal Road Test, (1967)


Babycakes with Weights, 1970


Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles, 1967



with--Billy Al Bengston. By James Monte. An exhibition catalogue designed by Ruscha. Oblong 4to, sand paper wrappers with the flocked title and twin-bolt binding; pink tie. First edition. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), (1968).